Minera San Cristobal integrates and automates labs using LIMS Concentrates are then filtered, loaded into containers and transported by rail to the port in Mejillones, Chile, and then by ocean vessel to smelters and refineries around the world. Minera San Cristobal S.A. is the largest mining company in Bolivia and is considered to be one of the world’s largest silver-zinc-lead development projects. Its key challenges illustrate the significant trends in the mining industry today, including the need to not only automate the laboratory, but to provide for rapid data capture and analysis of sample data through the integration of analytical instruments with laboratory software. This paper discusses the process used to select a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at

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